testing

Quality Radar – A Visual Team Communication Tool

I assume most of us who work as testers, have to come up with an answer for „How is the quality in the project?“ in exchanges with non-testers, and sometimes even with different testers within a project.

This was no exemption in my recent project, a multi-team, multi-domain program of 180 involved people from all disciplines.

Instead of providing a one-dimensional “quality” metric, which carries the risks of misunderstanding or misinterpretation, I let myself be guided by the Holistic Testing approach.

Experience level:

Beginner

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Things I wish I knew before I started writing unit tests

David Vlijmincx (Team rockstar IT)

How am I ever going to test this method? If you are like me, you probably asked yourself this question far too often. Because a method forces you to create an enormous test case, have lots of setup code, or worse, change production code to facilitate testing.

Experience level:

Beginner

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RCPTT, With a Hint of Cucumber

Werner Keil (Self Employed)

Automated UI Testing is always a challenge. User Acceptance Tests involving domain knowledge and particular conditions are often hard to test and even harder to fully automate.
The RCP Testing Tool (RCPTT) allows to simulate end to end user tests of the whole system, including the UI. Use cases are automated and can be repeated without involvement of actual users or testers. RCPTT enables test automation of UI tests for Eclipse plugins and Eclipse RCP based applications. In a nutshell RCPTT is like Selenium for Eclipse desktop applications.

Experience level:

Beginner

All Things Quality & Security

Is your open source project doing what it promised?

Luca Favaretto (Kalpa S.r.l.)

How does a testing team approach an Open Source project? There are two ways to do it: a reactive and a proactive approach.
In this talk we would like to present our proactive approach executed in the Oniro project and the beneficial effects that this approach gives to the product. We will compare this methodology with the reactive one and how it will improve the overall project quality.
This talk shall target Project Managers, Team Leaders and V&V People.

Experience level:

Intermediate

All Things Quality & Security

Isn’t Test Automation a Silver Bullet?

Mesut Durukal (Siemens)

Motivation:

As we all know, automated testing is a great way to reduce manual effort since by this means we can leverage automation to replace the execution of tests by a human tester with virtual pipelines. So, we can eliminate not only a huge need for manpower, but also time and cost.

Experience level:

Beginner

All Things Quality & Security

Being A Tester: Being a Superhero

Mesut Durukal (Siemens)

At first glance, testing may look straight-forward and simple. But not only verifying and validating the specifications, we are supposed to improve the product and the product development processes. Revealing weaknesses and improvement rooms in the product helps us to make our services better, but how about preventing them in the first place?

Experience level:

Beginner

All Things Quality & Security

Replicating production on your laptop using the magic of containers

Grace Jansen (IBM)

Containers are an amazing technology that are revolutionising how we deploy and create applications. Docker and Kubernetes are helping developers and organisations realise the magical potential that container technology and orchestration offer. Enter MicroShed and the Testcontainers framework enabling local test automation that leverages that magical portability containers offer. In this session we'll explore how Testcontainers can help you run and test with true-to-production environments in development with minimal re-writing of your test code.

Experience level:

Beginner

Cloud Native Technologies

Write tests that spark flow

Sebastian Daschner (IBM)

For most enterprise projects, testing is not really fun. It’s boring, cumbersome, and takes time and effort — especially for distributed applications or when changes in existing functionality forces test scenarios to adapt. Still, software tests are crucial; so, how can we tackle them in an effective and productive way?

Experience level:

Intermediate

Cloud Native Java

Testing practices of database communication in open-source projects

Csaba Nagy (Software Institute - USI, Lugano)

Database communication has a distinctive role in the codebase. We have to deal with libraries dedicated to specific databases, and we often use query languages such as SQL. It is tempting to avoid touching such code, and when it comes to testing, we face many challenges. To mention only a few examples: Will we mock or use an in-memory database? Do we need to write an integration test or a unit test? How do we know which code is responsible for database communication?

Experience level:

Intermediate

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Extreme learning situations as testers - How to add value while you're still learning

Christian Baumann (Finologee SA)

As software testers, we accept that each new role will require us to learn new technologies and skills. We also know that we often feel the need (or are told of the need) to provide value to the project quickly. Both of these competing expectations are normal to a certain degree. When I joined a new project about testing an API against a European Union standard for payment services, I had to do both to an extreme I had never experienced before.

Experience level:

Beginner

All Things Quality